Mingyur Rinpoche was born in Nepal in 1975 the youngest of four brothers. From the age of nine, his father, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, taught him meditation, passing on to him the most essential instructions of the Dzogchen and Mahamudra traditions.
At the age of eleven, Mingyur Rinpoche began studies at Sherab Ling Monastery in northern India, the seat of Tai Situ Rinpoche. Two years later, Mingyur Rinpoche began a traditional three-year retreat at Sherab Ling. At age twenty, Mingyur Rinpoche became the functioning abbot of Sherab Ling.
At twenty-three, he received full monastic ordination.
The institute will also have a medical clinic for local people. Rinpoche has overseen the Kathmandu Tergar Osel Ling Monastery, founded by his father, since 2010.
He also opened a shedra (monastic college) at the monastery. In June 2011, Mingyur Rinpoche left his monastery in Bodhgaya to begin a period of extended retreat.
Rinpoche left in the middle of the night, taking nothing with him, but leaving a farewell letter.
He spent four years as a wandering yogi.
